Major book publisher Macmillan is warming up to the growing world of subscriptions, and announcing today that it will provide hundreds of its most popular book titles to unlimited ebook subscription services Scribd and Oyster.

GuestWhen I wrote a guest column in this space back in late November lauding Arizona as a hotbed for tech startups, I never could have anticipated the backlash the story generated. Now I’m back with some more fodder for those haters out there.

GuestAs a disruptive entrepreneur, it’s your job to push back against “the way things are.” But according to Newton’s Third Law of Motion, those incumbents who cling to the status quo will push back just as hard. While this reaction is inevitable, you can’t take it as a license for reckless abandon. No matter how innovative your startup is, alienating critical industry players will hurt your success, upset your customers, and make you a number of well-connected enemies.

It always struck me as odd to see so many predictions about how the technology industry will evolve over the next year without waiting to see what happens at CES — arguably one of the larger tech conventions where companies announced plans for the coming year. That said, I’ve written up a few predictions of my own now that the event is wrapping up.

GuestThere has been a lot of buzz around the increasing overlap between the automotive and consumer electronics worlds. But perhaps the simplest and most striking way to get a sense of this dynamic is to take a walk around the CES show floor. T

GuestThe year is 1989 and our esteemed hero, Marty McFly, has just touched down in a fictional Hill Valley of 2015 to save his kids from his childhood nemesis. Back in the ’80s, when the Back to the Future franchise first took the world by storm, the incredible technologies presented there seemed more of a pipe dream fantasy than prophetic sci-fi.

Many people don’t realize that VentureBeat accepts guest columns from intelligent, well-spoken entrepreneurs, analysts, and others with expertise in a particular area of technology. These posts are a great way to learn insights from a wide variety of voices in the tech community.

Thanks to sister show Serial from the folks that brought you This American Life, podcasts are gaining some much deserved, renewed attention from listeners. Of course the two biggest setbacks to the medium have always been that podcast aren’t as easy to find as FM radio stations, and even harder to turn into a business.

You can probably already get your favorite magazine in digital format, but until now it probably didn’t use your tablet or smartphone’s hardware. That should soon change thanks to digital magazine startup Magzter.